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However disappointing it may have been for the Shockers to lose their super after winning game one while batting as the visitors, getting the huge and inexplicable gift of batting as the home team in both games two and three, and having Shafer and Capra ready to try to pick up one last win that never came, imagine how the fans of our old nemesis UC-Irvine must feel.
The Anteaters won the opener at LSU and led 7-2 going into the 8th inning while batting as the home team in game two. But their relievers and closer in particular actually made their Shocker counterparts look good, giving up two in the eighth and five in the ninth to blow the game 9-7. That set up today's finale, in which Irvine scored seven again, with a pretty good starter on the mound -- and lost by two touchdowns, 21-7. Their good starter had a Capra outing, giving up six runs in the first while retiring two hitters. In fact, in some ways he even outdid Capra, whose downfall was the inability to throw strikes; instead, the Irvine guy threw strikes and watched them leave the yard (three HRs, plus a double) in his 2/3 of an inning.
Now that would be an unhappy end to a season. Not quite Memphis free throw shooting bad -- this wasn't for all the marbles -- but pretty damn sorry nevertheless.
The Anteaters won the opener at LSU and led 7-2 going into the 8th inning while batting as the home team in game two. But their relievers and closer in particular actually made their Shocker counterparts look good, giving up two in the eighth and five in the ninth to blow the game 9-7. That set up today's finale, in which Irvine scored seven again, with a pretty good starter on the mound -- and lost by two touchdowns, 21-7. Their good starter had a Capra outing, giving up six runs in the first while retiring two hitters. In fact, in some ways he even outdid Capra, whose downfall was the inability to throw strikes; instead, the Irvine guy threw strikes and watched them leave the yard (three HRs, plus a double) in his 2/3 of an inning.
Now that would be an unhappy end to a season. Not quite Memphis free throw shooting bad -- this wasn't for all the marbles -- but pretty damn sorry nevertheless.
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